Joe Rogan Experience #2396 - Andrew Schulz

This sprawling JRE conversation jumps between dozens of topics with almost no through-line. It opens on AI-generated music and Sora video before settling into long riffs on the culture of pool hustling, the comedy industry's pile-ons and cowardice (with Mark Maron as a recurring target), and how social-media algorithms flatten people into cartoons and farm outrage. Schulz and Rogan defend loyalty to friends going through cancellations (Tony Hinchcliffe, Steve Rinzler), debate free speech versus the UK's speech crackdowns, and weigh in on immigration, the census, Gaza, and California governance. The back half wanders into anthropology, the Book of Enoch, Congo wildlife, UFOs and Bob Lazar, and underground Egyptian labyrinths. It's a freewheeling hang, heavy on opinion and storytelling, light on product talk.

• Rogan and Schulz argue New York vs LA are 'two different versions of American Psycho' — attention vs money to make up for a shitty childhood.
  00:32:39
• Schulz claims Netanyahu's political future is now dependent on Trump, who is more popular in Israel than Bibi.
  01:14:59
• Schulz unloads on Mark Maron, saying 'everybody inside comedy knows he's a piece of [expletive]' and recounting the John Stewart MTV-show hypocrisy.
  01:23:15
• Rogan describes touring SpaceX with Elon Musk and watching a launch via Starlink, calling it one of the most impressive things he's ever seen.
  01:32:27
• Rogan says the Book of Enoch — found in the Dead Sea Scrolls — is about 'watchers' who mated with humans to create giants (Nephilim), kept out of the Bible by a few rabbis.
  02:06:07
• Schulz reveals Tony Hinchcliffe told him the first night he slept after the Puerto Rico 'island of garbage' joke backlash was the night Rogan endorsed Trump.
  02:43:21
• They read an Atlantic headline that Cormac McCarthy's ex-wife pulled a gun out of her vagina during an argument about aliens.
  03:19:31
• Rogan claims ground-penetrating radar found massive underground labyrinths in Egypt with a 40-meter unknown-metal object, flooded by a 1960s dam.
  03:25:48

• 50 Cent allegedly told Rogan he had to bring 'clean security' (no felonies) to film in Australia.
  00:05:42
• Rogan says a Philadelphia bridge collapse was rebuilt in about 3 weeks after stripping legislation, versus an estimated 16–18 months normally.
  00:23:50
• A producer told Schulz Hollywood isn't even top-10 on the list of places to film; Australia offered roughly 60% off in taxes.
  00:28:59
• Filipino pool legend Efren Reyes hustled US players under the fake name 'Caesar Morales' before Google could expose him.
  00:45:42
• Alex Pereira fought Ankalaev in their first bout while sick (possibly norovirus) and with a badly injured left hand.
  01:09:48
• Rogan claims England has arrested 12,000 people over social media posts, some critical of immigration.
  01:46:51
• Neanderthals had bigger brains than modern humans and likely had art, tools, and language.
  02:11:48
• In WWI, Russians and Germans allegedly held a ceasefire to jointly kill wolves that were eating wounded soldiers in the trenches.
  03:16:57
• A Dead Sea Scrolls copy of the Book of Isaiah was found nearly verbatim to a version a thousand years later, showing remarkable textual preservation.
  02:07:40
• Elite pool players use a 'slip stroke' / 'throwing the cue' technique, holding the cue 'like a baby bird' for soft, precise contact.
  00:50:19

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